Why Americans should know about horrors of slavery

People wait in line to enter the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Cultural on the National Mall in Washington, D.C — People wait in line to enter the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Cultural on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)

By Baltimore Sun Editorial Board

PUBLISHED: August 21, 2025 at 11:15 AM EDT

President Trump frets the Smithsonian focuses too much on ‘how bad slavery was’ demonstrating only that he missed the point.

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